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Conference | Thailand Update


Conference with: Tyrell Haberkorn, Fellow in Political and Social Change, Australian National University; more Napat Jatusripitak, Ph.D. Student, University of Minnesota; Pinkaew Laungaramsri, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Chiang Mai University; Joseph Liow, Senior Fellow, Center for East Asia Policy Studies; Lee Kuan Yew, Chair in Southeast Asia Studies, Brookings Institution; Frank Munger, Professor of Law; Co-Chair, Law and Society Program, New York Law School; Sudarat Musikawong, Associate Professor of Sociology, Siena College; Pitch Pongsawat, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University; Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn, Ph.D. Student; Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University. less
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Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the more birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest! less
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Workshop | Bridge Club


Are you a Bridge buff? Put on your game face and show off your best plays. Join the fun and meet new more friends. All players welcome. less
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for more over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing. less
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Tour | Central Park Photography Tour


Ready. Set. Shoot! Join a Central Park Photography Tour like no other. A Licensed guide and talented more Photographer will take you around Central Park’s most scenic spots! He will explain all there’s to know about your surroundings while instructing you on how to make your trip memorable and improve your photography. These two-in-one tours are fun for all ages, camera type (even iPhones and smart devices), and levels of photography. So join us to have a great time if your passion is New York and photography while visiting the lungs of Manhattan. You will pass the Ramble, the Bow Bridge, The Point and more. less
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Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled more and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway. less
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Tour | Manhattan Street Art Tour


Join a Manhattan Street Art Tour and experience the Lower East Side - SoHo, NoHo, Nolita and Little Italy. more The Lower East Side of Manhattan is a playground for street artists, Soho is known to be one of NYC first permit Joint Live-Work Quarters for artists and the area received landmark designation in 1973. Noho and Nolita’s street art is either hidden in courtyards or on the more prominent street art facades. Learn about the history of the art of many famous and unknown artist. less
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central more Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. less
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Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
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Symposium | Why Sex? Why Gender?: Activist Research for Social Justice


A symposium in honor of Janet Jakobsen. For the past 15 years, Professor Janet R. Jakobsen has more led the Center for Research on Women in producing complex, multidisciplinary analyses that address the realities of social change across a diverse range of issues. As the capstone to Professor Jakobsen’s directorship, this symposium will further expand and transform frameworks for social justice feminism, taking up gender, race, sex, religion, freedom, economics, and arts. less
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome more to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. less
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of more choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar. less
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12:20 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography


Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition.
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery more in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate. less
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Discussion | Edith Windsor: An Unlikely Activist


From private citizen to documentary film star to Supreme Court petitioner who overturned the Defense more of Marriage Act, Edith Windsor became a gay rights and feminist icon in her ninth decade. View the informative and poignant documentary, Edie and Thea: A Very Long Engagement, about her life with Thea Spyer, her partner of almost 50 years. The screening is followed by a conversation between Windsor and her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, as they trace their odyssey through the court system, resulting in United States v. Windsor, the 2013 landmark decision that struck down DOMA. less
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1:00 pm
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Film | James Marsh's Oscar Winner The Theory of Everything (2014): Stephen Hawking Biopic


Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior. A look at the relationship between the famous physicist more Stephen Hawking and his wife. 123 min. less
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Workshop | Learn Fencing in the Park


Take a stab at the modern sport of fencing with masters from Manhattan Fencing Center. No prior experience more needed and equipment is provided. less
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Tour | Bushwick Graffiti and Street Art Tour


New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists more from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick. less
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, more however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all. less
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, more food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments. less
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central more Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. less
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Discussion | Collecting and Presenting Tibetan Material Culture in the West


Museums and Material Culture in East Asia with Melissa Kerin, Washington and Lee University; Dominique more Townsend, Rubin Museum of Art. Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University. less
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Computer Buying Guide


Learn about hardware and software before buying a computer.
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Photoshop CS6 for Beginners


Learn how to enhance photos using the #1 photo editing software in the world; Adobe Photoshop. In this more class you will get acquainted with the features of Photoshop and learn about layers and use them to minpulate images to your desire. less
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography


Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition.
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Concert | College Recitals


Erica Tursi, Violin 4 p.m. Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, Mezzo-Soprano 4 p.m. Angela Vallone, Soprano more 6 p.m. Lukas Gabric, Tenor Saxophone 8 p.m. Justin Park, Cello 8 p.m. less
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4:00 pm
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Reading | Goldwater Hospital Writing Workshop


With special guest Marie Howe. Readings by the Golden Writers, participants of a writing workshop for more disabled adults led by fellows from the Creative Writing Program. less
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Apples to Apples Game Social


Join weekly Game Socials to meet up with like-minded players interested in the same games as you. On more Fridays, they play the popular party game Apples to Apples. less
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Concert | College Recitals


5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Myungjin Oh, piano 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Ruth Widder String Quartet Competition Performance more 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Gabriel Schnider, jazz guitar 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Kyuyoung Lee, tenor 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Agne Radzeviciute, piano 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Jung Hyun Kim, accompanying less
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Film | Documentary: Ian Cheney's The City Dark (2012)


Is darkness becoming extinct? When filmmaker Ian Cheney moves from rural Maine to New York City and discovers more streets awash in light and skies devoid of stars, he embarks on a journey to America’s brightest and darkest corners, asking astronomers, cancer researchers and ecologists what is lost in the glare of city lights. 60 min. less
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings by Gabriele Grones


GABRIELE GRONES lives and works in Arabba and Rovigo, Italy.
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Lecture | Art and Reality: Serbian Perspectives


Alook at some of the most recent trends in Serbian two-dimensional art. Selected examples testify to more the diversity, vibrancy, and beauty of art produced in this troubled country during the turbulent past two decades. Having witnessed their former country, Yugoslavia, torn apart by civil war, and their new country, Serbia, crippled by NATO bombings, political intrigues, corruption, staggering unemployment, and bleak prospects for recovery, these artists have turned to the creative potential of the human imagination to escape, confront, and comment on a situation over which they have no control. Speaker Svetlana Rakić was born in Sarajevo (now Bosnia-Herzegovina) in 1958. She left her home country, Yugoslavia, in 1992 to come to the U.S. She received her M.A. in art history from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1989 and her Ph.D. in art history from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1999. She teaches art and art history as a full professor at Franklin College, Indiana. less
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Tour | High Line Tour


The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, more French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park. less
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Opening Reception | Hope Gangloff: New Paintings


Hope Gangloff uses form to buttress her compositional strategies. She wields the brush like a pen using more small, tight strokes to convey a speed which belies the delicacy and deliberation that establish them as sites of optic pleasure. In recent years her palette has brightened and the requisite use of pattern has been taken to new heights, creating a visual narrative that triangulates the viewer in a relationship between style and subject matter. less
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Screening | Remembering SlutForArt: Tseng Kwong Chi


A special conversation and screening on dance, performance, and art with Ping Chong, artist; Bill T. more Jones, dancer-choreographer; and Muna Tseng, dancer-choreographer, sister of Tseng Kwong Chi and trustee of his estate, moderated by Karen Shimakawa, associate professor and chair of Performance Studies. The event will begin with an excerpt of the performance SlutForArt a.k.a.Ambiguous Ambassador and 98.6: A Convergence in 15 Minutes choreographed and performed by Muna Tseng and conceived and directed by Ping Chong. The performance features the voiceover of the Tseng and Chong in an interview about Tseng Kwong Chi along with projected photographs in a deeply moving homage to the memory of an artist and brother who succumbed to the AIDS virus in 1990. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Tseng and Chong in concert with Bill T. Jones. less
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Opening Reception | Yinka Shonibare MBE: Colonial Arrangements


Colonial Arrangements will feature new and established work by world-renowned British-Nigerian artist more Yinka Shonibare MBE. Celebrated for his extensive use of Dutch wax textiles, Shonibare makes art that’s at once colorful, invigorating, fantastical and thought-provoking. Colonial Arrangements will place in several of its period rooms classic Shonibare sculptures taken from the series “Mother and Father Worked Hard So I Can Play” and “Planets In My Head,” as well as an entirely new work which uses 19th-century-inspired theatrical techniques to create a ghostly apparition of Eliza Jumel, MJM’s longest-standing resident. less
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Concert | Jesse Cook performs from his CD One World


Welcome Canadian composer, producer and acoustic guitarist Jesse Cook with his newly released CD in a more performance of nuevo flamenco. less
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Reading | NYU Emerging Writers Reading


The Emerging Writers Reading Series showcases the student talent of NYU’s graduate Creative Writing more Program and features established writers as special guests. Catherine Lacey is the author of the debut novel “Nobody Is Ever Missing." less
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Film | Peter Weir's The Truman Show (1988): Nominated for 3 Oscars


Stars: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney. An insurance salesman discovers his entire life is actually more a TV show. 103 min. Snacks and beverages included. less
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Tour | 9/11 Memorial and Brooklyn Bridge Night Tour


A renaissance is taking place on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Since the terrorist attacks of more September 11th 2001, a concerted effort has been undertaken to redevelop this part of the city, with the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and the construction of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. And from twilight into the night is the right time to pay a visit to this part of New York City. From the Memorial to the Woolworth Building, City Hall to the Brooklyn Bridge, some of the your most memorable experiences in the city await you. less
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Conference | Beyond 'Asian Extremes': New Cinema Practices in Southeast and East Asia


Focusing on contemporary independent film practices, this workshop aims to foster dialogues between film more and media scholars, practitioners, and activists from East and Southeast Asia to explore parallels, intersections, and future collaborations in the Trans-Asian context. less
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Concert | College String Chamber Music Concert


From the Program in String Performance.
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Concert | The MACE Ensemble performs music of living American composers


MACE is a large ensemble which focuses on the music of living American composers. MACE not only presents more works by iconic American masters such as John Adams and Elliott Carter, but also cutting-edge works by up and coming composers. The ensemble aims to embrace as broad a view possible of the incredibly diverse and vital landscape of contemporary American music. This concert is under the direction of faculty Anthony Coleman. Program TBA. less
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Opera | The Opera Repertoire Ensemble performs Léo Delibes' Lakmé


Lakmé is an opera in three acts first performed in 1883. Set in British India in the mid-19th century, more Lakmé captures the ambience of the Orient seen through Western eyes. Thomas Muraco, conductor. Libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. Performed in French with English supertitles. less
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Concert | Performance Workshop Spring Concert


This informal recital serves as an open forum for solo and ensemble performances by students.
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Jazz | The Lab Sessions: Experimental Jazz Party and Jam Session


Hosted by bassist/vocalist Mimi Jones and exploring genres from traditional and contemporary jazz, eclectic more soul, funk, rock, and neo soul. Great music, great vibes, and a great time. less
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Jazz | Story, Song and Stage Ensemble


Performance is a central component of every student's education at the School of Jazz, and the Ensemble more Showcases are where faculty-led student groups showcase their talent and creativity. The Story, Song and Stage Ensemble investigates the story in a song and how to stage that story effectively. Vocalists engages audiences in a personal interpretation of the meaning of a song. less
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Concert | Lily Virginia, 'Fearless...Melodic' Singer-Songwriter


“Coupled with the fearless artistry of Kate Bush and the melodic openness of Annie Lennox, Lily Virginia more sweeps into our ears with her uniquely danceable art pop.” — The Deli Magazine With her ethereal yet powerful vocals, singer-songwriter Lily Virginia seamlessly blends indie folk Americana with catchy pop hooks for a sound that’s equal parts Bon Iver and Fleetwood Mac. Her candid, confessional lyrics convey a raw vulnerability as her songs move from hushed and intimate to rousing and anthemic in the space of a breath. less
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